I wanted to pull a clever one and created /var/mysql as separate partition.
But it fails miserably.
At install, it will tell me that there is already a database, though
/var/mysql is empty.
mysqld_safe &
won't start; with an error 'already running' though there is no pid.
So I simply removed the entry in fstab and now everything works fine;
except that my /var/ is much too small.
I wonder why. Of course, I couldn't rm -Rf /var/mysql at de-install
('busy'), but that is understood.
What I don't understand is, how mysql can be clever enough to distinguish
between /var/mysql on /var/ and /var/mysql/ as single partition. I use to
create /var/mail, /var/www without any problem.
Uwe,
curious for any pointer
